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Generations of holiday shoppers visited the Lazarus department store in downtown Columbus every Christmas season until it closed in 1994. The decorated window displays were a cherished tradition ...
"There was this idea of dressing up, taking the train downtown and spending the day at the department store." Santaland at Macy's State Street in Chicago still draws crowds each Christmas season.
Founded in 1881 as a clothing store for men and boys in downtown Detroit, the Hudson's 25-story building stood as the world’s tallest department store until 1961.
Sterling Lindner Davis (SLD) was a major department store in downtown Cleveland's Theater District which operated from 1845 (with the founding of Sterling & Welch) to 1968. [1] The retailer was primarily known for displaying the largest decorated Christmas tree in the state of Ohio, this tradition started in 1927. [ 2 ]
He retired in February 1985, and Doug Hawkes took over the time slot. Pallan said his favorite broadcasts were the Christmas season shows that KDKA originated daily from the downtown department store windows as a fund-raiser for Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital. Pallan was also a singer who cut several records in the 1950s.
This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
Dee Moore, 84, can't forget his mother buying him Buster Brown shoes at one downtown store with an X-ray shoe-fitting machine. The devices, in wooden boxes similar to an old radio console, were ...
Between 1895 and 1917, Downtown Crossing became the hub of department store shopping in Boston. In 1841, Eben Jordan and Benjamin L. Marsh opened the first Jordan Marsh store as wholesalers, which later grew into a retail department store. Another major store, Filene's, was founded in 1881. Originally known as William Filene's Sons Co. the ...